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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Columbus find when he returned to the Navidad fort after his journey back to Spain?

2. Where was W. E. B. Du Bois born?

3. The word “Arawak” comes from “aru” which is the Lucayan word for what?

4. When was the Tea Act passed by the British Parliament?

5. What author spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his Massachusetts Poll Tax because he opposed the Mexican-American War?

Short Essay Questions

1. When and where did Dorr’s Rebellion occur? How does the author describe the surrounding circumstances of this event in Chapter 10?

2. Where does the author assert the history of slavery in the U.S. originated in Chapter 2?

3. How does the author describe the Sioux puberty ceremony for women in Chapter 6?

4. What positive qualities of the establishment of the United States does Zinn discuss in Chapter 4?

5. What does the author say of “natural antipathy” in Chapter 2?

6. What author spent a night in jail following his protest of the Mexican-American War? Why was he arrested?

7. Where did Christopher Columbus intend to travel when he “discovered” the Americas? Where does the author assert he actually landed in Chapter 1?

8. How does the author describe Virginia’s “chain of oppression” in Chapter 3?

9. What choice were the Native American people given in regard to their futures and their homes, according to the author in Chapter 7?

10. How does Howard Zinn describe the changes of the Native American population from the 1820s to the 1840s in Chapter 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the causes and effects of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. What policy changes were enacted as a result of the movement? When did desegregation take place? What contributions to the movement were made by Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, the Communist Party, the Congress of Racial Equality, the Freedom Riders, and the Black Panther Party?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the colonization of the Americas and the settlements of the English, Dutch, French, Spanish, and other colonists that came to the New World to establish governance. Where did the first Puritan settlers land? What indigenous people lived in these regions? How many Native Americans died as a result of disease brought by the Europeans? How many died as a result of war and violence?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the oppressions in industry in the early twentieth century. In what ways did corporate leaders segregate their workers in order to maintain oppression and order? How can this type of segregation be seen in corporations today? How does “outsourcing” relate to this concept?

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